Brian Bourke

Brian Bourke (born 1936 in Dublin) is an Irish artist.

Life Bourke was born in Dublin in 1936. His parents were Thomas Bourke (Tómas de Búrca) and Eileen (Eibhlín) Bourke (née Somers). Bourke left school early and got a job in the art department of the Player Wills tobacco company on the condition he enrolled at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). He later studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. He travelled across Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. and the Cork Rosc exhibitions in 1980. and he received the O'Malley Award from the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1993. He is a member of the Aosdána and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

Bourke's brother was the photographer Fergus Bourke. Bourke has married twice, first to Ann, a lecturer at NCAD, and secondly to Jay Murphy, also an artist.